Oprah Winfrey honors her brother, who died of AIDS at 29, at the GLAAD Media Awards

I wish he could have lived to witness these liberated times and be here with me tonight.

I know that that is the truest form of what it means to be free," she said.

“To have personal freedom.

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To be able to fully be who you are.

To have the truest expression of yourself as a human being.”